QUOTE OF THE DAY “We don’t even have tents to cover my kids. There are no shops.There is no food.There is no water.” Haji Wajd Ali, who lives in the village of Labach, Pakistan, where every other house was destroyed by a magnitude-7.7 earthquake Tuesday, on aid not reaching remote areas Article, this page
10 die in 2 attacks in India’s Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India - Suspected separatist rebels stormed into a police station in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday and shot and killed at least six people before attacking a nearby army camp, killing four soldiers, police said.
Security forces killed three attackers after nearly six hours of fighting inside the army camp, said Ashok Prasad, a top police officer in Jammu-Kashmir state. He said the attackers used guns and grenades.
“The firing from the militants has stopped, and we are mopping up the area,” Prasad said.
Police officer Rajesh Kumar said only three militants were involved in the attacks, based on eyewitness accounts.
Four soldiers died and two others were critically wounded in the second attack, an army officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The deputy head of the army’s cavalry unit was among the dead, and the unit’s commanding officer was being treated for injuries, the officer said.
3 blasts at Shiite markets kill 23 in Iraq
BAGHDAD - Bombs ripped through outdoor markets in and near Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens, the latest in a deadly wave that has hit Iraq in recent months, officials said.
Three bombs went off simultaneously in the Shiite village of Sabaa al-Bour, about 20 miles north of the Iraqi capital.
Police said the explosions - two at the market entrance and one inside the shopping area - went off as the place was packed with shoppers, killing 16 people and wounding 41 there.
The attack came shortly after a bomb blast hit the al-Athorien market in Baghdad’s southern neighborhood of Dora. Police said seven people, including two women, were killed there and 17 people were wounded.
NATO soldier slain by uniform in Afghan
KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man wearing the uniform of the country’s security forces turned his weapon on NATO troops Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a member of the international coalition.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing, which took place in eastern Paktia province. It was the second so-called insider attack in less than a week by a member of the Afghan forces against their international allies.
NATO said the attacker was killed but provided no other details. The alliance said the international forces were investigating the shooting, which they have not yet classified as an insider attack.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid sent a text message to the media, claiming responsibility for the attack.
A spokesman for the governor of eastern Paktia, Rohullah Samon, said the shooting took place on an Afghan base in the Gerda Sarai district.
Sudan cancels president’s U.N. plans
UNITED NATIONS - Sudan has canceled its president’s appearance at the annual United Nations meeting of world leaders this week, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday. Omar al-Bashir would have been the first head of state to address the General Assembly while facing international war-crimes and genocide charges.
The United States had made it clear it did not want al-Bashir to show up in New York, and human-rights groups had warned they would seek legal action against him if he arrived.
Al-Bashir faces two International Criminal Court indictments on charges linked to the conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 300,000 people have died since 2003.
Dozens feared trapped in India collapse
MUMBAI, India - A multistory building collapsed today in India’s financial capital of Mumbai. Rescuers are trying to reach more than two dozen people feared trapped in the rubble, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties.
Local television NDTV reported today that at least 25 people were believed to be in the five-story residential building near Dockyard Road when it collapsed after dawn in the city’s southeast.
It was the latest of several building collapses this year in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. In June, at least 10 people died when a three-story building collapsed.
Across India, building collapses have become relatively common. Demand for housing around India’s fast-growing cities combined with pervasive corruption often result in builders using substandard materials or adding unauthorized floors.
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